Metadata Harvesting using Agent Technology

M. Vidaković, G. Sladić, and M. Zarić (Serbia and Montenegro)

Keywords

OAI, PMH, agent, framework, metadata, harvesting,
XJAF

Abstract

Academic community is acutely in need of a unified and
easily accessible library of MSc papers and PhD theses.
The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) has been established
in order to tackle this problem, and its primary goal is to
establish the framework and standards for interchange of
metadata. The OAI has adopted the Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (PMH) as the standardised protocol for
metadata harvesting. Metadata mining through the
archives is by its very nature distributed, and as such
represents a good basis for the agent technology. One case
study of implementing agent framework for metadata
harvesting in the context of OAI will be presented in this
paper.